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On windows 8.1 Pro x64 just wondering what’s happened to Windows Defender Updates?
Haven’t had an update in over 17 hours (as of posting) which, is VERY unusual..
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions
shows that I’m up to date..
anyone else?
Well, looks like it was updated 24 hrs and 22 mins later SNAFU
I don’t think this is “resolved”. I just tried to update Windows Defender on my Windows 10 Pro machine. It updated THREE TIMES and finally the last update is the “current one” shown here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions
But look at the time! It is 1:11AM here in Hawaii on July 17. That update that I just got is time stamped 10:38 AM July 17.
That doesn’t make sense as that is in the future even by PDT that Microsoft is on. I’ve never had Defender update three times in a row before either. I updated 12 hours ago so how could there be three new updates in 12 hours and the last one being time stamped hours into the future?
I think Windows Defender update times may have been weird for many people for up to the last year:
(And it doesn’t seem to be caused by their use of UTC/GMT.)
Thank you for the link to that thread. I never had these problems on 1709. I upgraded to 1803 on April 7. So, the problem exists not only on 1809, as that thread reveals, but also on 1803. Ugh.
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